At first glance, it looked like a strange square in space. Until astronomers detected that it is actually an Einstein cross ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare cosmic configuration: An Einstein Cross with five points of light, instead of the usual four, has been discovered by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The odd shapes aren't camera tricks. They're caused by a cosmic effect called gravitational lensing, which turns massive galaxies ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it—the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space Telescope in search ...

In what the team describes as the largest-scale probe of gravity to date, they found that the force weakens with distance ...

The combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs helps astronomers take an inventory of the Milky Way. The Einstein@Home project connects home and office PCs of volunteers from around the world to ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly small "dark object" lurking within a distant ring of warped light. The record-breaking find could help shed light on the mysterious identity of dark matter, ...

UNIGE Professor Michele Maggiore has been appointed spokesperson for the future European gravitational-wave observatory. Michele Maggiore will represent the entire collaboration, after having ...

Brussels, Belgium -- Research into the Einstein Telescope is generating valuable technological expertise. While this presents major opportunities for industry, much of the knowledge fails to reach ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible matter shapes galaxies. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...